Data Wise

Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning presents a clear and carefully tested blueprint for school leaders.

It shows how examining test scores and other classroom data can become a catalyst for important schoolwide conversations that will enhance schools abilities to capture teachers knowledge, foster collaboration, identify obstacles to change, and enhance school culture and climate.

This revised and expanded edition captures the learning that has emerged in integrating the seven steps of the Data Wise process into school practice over the past eight years. The authors introduce the “ACE Habits of Mind” for cultivating accountability, collaboration, and evidence, and show how the habits can be woven into each step of the process. A new concluding chapter focuses on how people learn to do the work of improvement, addressing common questions such as “Where do I start?” and “How long will it take?” The edition also brings the book up-to-date with recent developments in education and technology. It includes new protocols and a complete list of resources for professional learning available through the Data Wise Project.

“"This book provides a great variety of useful ideas and tools for analyzing student achievement data. It serves as an important and significant resource for school leaders in utilizing data to improve instruction and increase student achievement." -- Gerald N. Tirozzi , Executive Director, National Association of Secondary School Principals”

Data Wise is practical and based on experiences in real schools; therefore, it achieves one of its goals of helping school leaders understand how to use student assessments to improve teaching and learning. . .Data Wise: A Step-by Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning is a nice contribution to how to get assessment data used by those who are leading and teaching in our schools." —Teachers College Record

"The book is well organized and would serve as a great tool for school and district improvement teams. Of special interest to superintendents is the chapter devoted to the role of the central office in becoming data wise." —School Administrator

"For any team of educators needing to implement a coherent instructional plan, to identify the learning needs of every student, and to meet those needs, this book will be very helpful. The reviewer believes that if the goal of a school is to review student assessment results to improve teaching and learning, following this book would be beneficial." —Education Review

Kathryn Parker Boudett is a lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), USA and director of the Data Wise Project.

Elizabeth A. City is director of the Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.) Program and a lecturer on education at HGSE, USA.

Richard J. Murnane is the Thompson Professor of Education and Society at HGSE, USA.

In the wake of the accountability movement, school administrators are inundated with data about their students. How can they use this information to support student achievement? Data Wise presents a clear and carefully tested blueprint for school leaders. It shows how examining text scores and other classroom data can become a catalyst for important schoolwide conversations that will help schools capture teachers' knowledge, foster collaboration, identify obstacles to change, enhance school culture and climate, and improve students' results. The rich experience of the contributors--among them exemplary school leaders and top scholars in the field of statistics and testing--is reflected in the case studies that illustrate each chapter. "This book provides a great variety of useful ideas and tools for analyzing student achievement data. It serves as an important and significant resource for school leaders in utilizing data to improve instruction and increase student achievement." -- Gerald N. Tirozzi , Executive Director, National Association of Secondary School Principals "The step-by-step process described in this invaluable book has helped me engage my faculty in lively, frank, and productive discussions about our student assessment results. Now we are able to make the connections between data and instruction in ways that improve teaching and learning systematically throughout the school." -- Janet Palmer Owens , Principal, Mason Pilot School, Boston, Massachusetts. "A masterful example of what can happen when great scholars confront real-world problems." -- Michael Feuer , Founding Director, Board of Testing and Assessment, National Research Council of the National Academies Kathryn Parker Boudett teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Elizabeth A. City teaches aspiring principals at Boston's School Leadership Institute and is currently a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Richard J. Murnane , an economist, is the Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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